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Dr. Bernard Lown walks on the bridge renamed in his honor, in 2008 in Lewiston. Lown was a Massachusetts cardiologist who invented the first reliable heart defibrillator and later co-founded an anti-nuclear war group that was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. He died Tuesday.
Jose Leiva/The Lewiston Sun-Journal via Associated Press
Dr. Bernard Lown will be remembered as a humanitarian, for his work on the invention of the defibrillator and his activism for world peace. To the people of the Twin Cities, he’ll be remembered as a hometown hero.
Lown died Tuesday at age 99. The Boston Globe reported the Lithuania-born doctor’s health had been declining from congestive heart failure. He died in his Boston-area home.
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This Week in Lincolnville: Vaccine Envy No More
..the wait seemed endless Mon, 02/15/2021 - 10:45am
Our hens taking advantage of a sunny day in the middle of February.
Photo by Diane O’Brien
Yes, I admit it, I was envious that everyone I knew had already gotten their first vaccine and carried around in their wallets a card with their
second appointment! How was that fair? I kept my phone close and answered every single sketchy number that rang, (except for the only one I ignored, the one that came up “probable scam”; it turned out that was actually from the Covid hotline – with my appointment???)